Posts Tagged ‘Books’

Hey All, Check out the Character breakdown I did of Bella Swan for the OBS New Moon Book Club!!

Edward’s and Jacob’s will be coming soon!!

You can check it out HERE

Hi All,

I’m now a guest writer up on OpenBookSociety.com!!!

I’m mostly going to be writing about TV Shows like Vampire Diaries, True Blood, etc. I might chime in on some Twilight Saga stuff or what not!!!

You can check out my first post HERE!!!

XOXO,

M

A very cool site (and an affiliate of ours) openbooksociety.com is looking for people to help run the site.

Currently they are looking for the following:

The Special Edition of ‘Breaking Dawn’ hit stores yesterday, and like the good Twilighter that I am, I pre-ordered mine, so it was waiting for me when I got home!!

What makes this copy so “Special”, well it has a few extra little goodies.

First off, in the back of the book is the Q/A portion of the ‘Breaking Dawn Concert Series’ Stephenie Meyer did, followed by the Twilight Saga Song Book, which includes all the Blue October songs that inspired Stephenie throughout her writing the books.

Next up is the DVD from the Concert Series which includes Blue October’s Justin Furstenfeld singing the song “My Never”!!!

Also included is the replica of the Justin’s handwritten lyrics for “My Never”!!!

The best little goody (to me anyways) would the poster of the back side of the book Jacket.  It is a full color poster of Edward and Bella, from the soon to come ‘Twilight: The Graphic Novel‘.

The illustrator is Young Kim, who according to the poster is also a contributing illustrator to ‘The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide’ (the release date of the official guide keeps changing).

Only 1 million copies of the Special Edition were printed, so if you haven’t purchased yours, I would so soon.

By now I’m sure you’ve heard that Stephenie Meyer has been accused of plagiarizing her novel ‘Breaking Dawn’ by some author named Jordan Scott.

Scott has served Ms.Meyer with a “cease and desist order regarding the novel.  Claiming that the idea of weddings, slightly rough honeymoon consummation, and other worldly pregnancies were stolen from her 2006 novel ‘The Nocturne’.

According to MTV.com Scott’s novel is about “a magical tale of doomed love between a young sorcerer and a teenage girl in 15th-century France”.

The following statement was released from Little,Brown publisher of ‘The Twilight Saga’.
“The claim that ‘Breaking Dawn’ by Stephenie Meyer somehow infringes on an alleged book by someone named Jordan Scott is completely without merit. Neither Stephenie Meyer nor her representatives had any knowledge of this writer or her supposed book prior to this claim. Ms. Scott’s attorney has yet to furnish us with a copy of the book to support this claim as requested. The world of the ‘Twilight Saga’ and the stories within it are entirely the creation of Ms. Meyer. Her books have been a phenomenal sensation, and perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising to hear that other people may seek to ride the coattails of such success. This claim is frivolous and any lawsuit will be defended vigorously.”

According to Craig Williams the attorney representing Scott what that they are not seeking compensation, but are asking that circulation of the book stop, and they want to prevent Summit Entertainment from making Breaking Dawn into a movie.

Per Twilight Lexicon,
“Loose fantasy ideas are not copyrightable, otherwise all vampire fiction would have stopped at Bram Stoker. Neither are loose romance plots copyrightable, or Harlequin would not be a leader in romance.”

I have read the document posted on TMZ.com, and the Twilight Lexicon has it right.  Ms. Scott is trying to claim copyright infringement on basic fantasy ideas and words.  In one of the “instances” the only similarity I could see was both characters being told they were beautiful.

So, all in all, I have to agree with The Lex when they say “he type of word-for-word lifting and exact modeling of character and circumstance that need to be present for a copyright case to have merit is simply not there.”